Fiscal Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Outbreak
Agustin Redonda | 20 March 2020
Blog,
Fiscal | Tags:
Covid-19,
Inequality,
Informality,
Tax Expenditures,
VAT The global crisis we are facing is one of the worst in history. The priority, obviously, is to reduce the number of coronavirus victims. At the same time, mitigating the economic impacts is vital.
Both the real economy and financial markets worldwide have already been hard
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Should Monetary Policy Take Inequality and Climate Change into Account?
Patrick Honohan | 24 January 2020
Discussion Notes,
Monetary | Tags:
Climate Change,
Governing Finance,
Inequality Should central banks take more account of ethical issues, notably the impact of monetary policy actions on the distribution of income and wealth and on efforts to combat climate change, in the design and implementation of the wider monetary policy toolkit they have been using
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Unconventional Monetary Policy and Inequality – Is Japan Unique?
Ayako Saiki and
Jon Frost | 20 September 2019
Monetary,
Working Papers | Tags:
Inequality,
Japan,
Quantitative Easing For over a decade, but especially since the start of Abenomics in 2013, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) has been increasing the monetary base rapidly by implementing an unconventional monetary policy (UMP). In a 2014 study, we found that Japan’s UMP had increased income inequality.
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What the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Means for Tax Expenditures
Eric Toder | 20 June 2019
Blog,
Fiscal | Tags:
Income Tax,
Inequality,
Tax Expenditures In a new paper, my former Tax Policy Center colleague Daniel Berger and I calculate that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) modestly reduced the cost of tax expenditures in the individual income tax and made them slightly less regressive. We estimate that
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The Low-Skill Losers
Karen Petrou | 30 April 2019
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Employment,
Federal Reserve,
Inequality,
QE The Fed is devoting increasing analytical – if not yet policy-maker – attention to the unequalizing impact of unconventional policy. It’s a start – a major problem besetting central banks in countries without a robust middle class – i.e., the U.S. – is that
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